David Seltzer Quotes

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

The end times are here. And that is a lot, so that is why we have to do our best to stop it.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it's the projection of mankind's worst fear. The day that, as a race, our number is up.

Eschatological fears are an ancient human concern. The Romans expected the world to end in 634 B.C. owing to a prophecy involving twelve eagles, while the early Christians anticipated the Final Judgment in their own lifetimes. Pope Sylvester II thought A.D. 1000 would be the last year, a view updated for the modern age by the Millennium bug.